Prelims 2014 · Modern History and the Freedom Struggle · Question 21
The Partition of Bengal made by Lord Curzon in 1905 lasted until
Answer
King George V abrogated Curzon's Act at the Royal Durbar in Delhi in 1911
- (a) Incorrect. The 1905 Partition of Bengal was annulled in 1911, not during the First World War; WWI began in 1914.
- (b) Correct. King George V announced the annulment at the Delhi Durbar in 1911; Bengal was reunited and Bihar-Orissa were separated.
- (c) Incorrect. Gandhiji’s Civil Disobedience Movement began in 1930, long after the partition had already been ended.
- (d) Incorrect. The 1905 partition did not last till 1947; although Bengal was partitioned again in 1947, Curzon’s partition had been revoked in 1911.